Diphtheria: The patch still remains-A case report from the state of Uttarakhand

• Main Authors: Aroop Mohanty (Author), Mohit Bhatia (Author), Pratima Gupta (Author), Saurabh Varshney (Author), Manu Malhotra (Author), Balram J Omar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Diphtheria is a potentially fatal acute infectious disease caused by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is rare in most developed countries due to routine childhood vaccination. Although Universal Immunization Programme is fully functional in India, several hospital-based surveilla...